Peripheral resilient mount for electric motors



Dec. 27, 1938. H. D. GEYER PERIPHERAL RESILIENT AMOUNT FOR ELECTRIC MOTORS Filed Sept. 12, 1935 kl Z3 25 H IEEOR Ef' VE), EyE'" ffl, ,6/ 027% HIS ATTORNEYS Patented Dec. 27, 193s PERIPHERAL RES ILIENT ELECTRIC MOTORS vPAT-EN i vortica MOUNT FOR Harvey D. Geyer, Dayton, Ohio, assigner to General Motors Corporation, Detroit, Mich., a eorporation of Delaware Application september 1 2, 1935, serial No. 0.221 3 claims. (ci. 24a-zc) This invention relates to improvements in resilient mounting units for the mounting of electric motors and other mechanical devices upon their supporting bases.

5 An object of this invention is to provide a very simple, inexpensive and eiiicient mounting unit which will permit a considerable amount of rotary y v deflection in the direction of torque reaotion of the motor but only a relatively small degree of 1 0 deflection. under the weight load supported thereby. This is accomplished by providing that the torque reaction put the resilient rubber elements under shearing stress while the weight load is sustained by compression on the rubber elements. A further feature of the mounting unit of this invention is the off-set relation between the two metal plates fixed to the supporting base and supported device respectively, and the intermediate oating metal plate which carries the loads from one resilient rubber element to the other.

This off-set relation greatly simplies the attaching means and facilitates the attachment of the two xed ymetal plates to the base and supported device respectively, and also provides a mechanical leverage for the stresses in the two rubber elements whereby any desired greater def flections may be obtained without making the rubber excessively soft. In other words, when the rubber elements undergo shearing stresses due to torque reaction (in the illustrated case, of an electric motor). the floating plate swings at an angle relative to the two fixed plates and thus serves as a sort of pivot link to very materially increase the amount of deection between the base and the supported device.

Further objects and advantages of the present invention will be apparent from the following description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing wherein a preferred embodiment of 4 the present invention is clearly shown.

In the drawing: Fig. 1 is a face view of a double mounting unit made according to this invention. Fig. 2 is a section on line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Figs. 3 and 4 show how an electric motor may be mounted upon its base by two mounting units as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Fig, 3 is a view looking in the direction of arrow 3 in Fig. 4 and shows one mount in side elevation.

Fig. 4 is taken on the broken line 4 4 of Fig. 3, and shows on theleft side thereof a section thru the center line of the portion xed to the base and on the right side thereof a section thru the centerline of one screw for fixing the mount to the motor.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

' The double mounting unit shown in Figs. `1 and -5 2 comprises a metal plate III, preferably steel, formed to fit the curvature of the motor housing II and having two screw holes I2 therein for receiving the attachment screws I3 which fix plate I 0 rigidly upon the housing 4I I. Two metal plates 10 I4 are located oiI-set from the ends of plate I0, and each plate I4 has a headed screw I5 welded or otherwise suitably ilxed thereto for vfixing these plates I4 to the supporting base I6. Twointermediate iioating metall plates 20 overlap plates 'I0 -15 and I4, as clearly shown inFig. 2, and two pairs of resilient rubber blocks 2| and 22 are surface bonded by vulcanizatlon in situ to the metal plates I0, I4, and 2li and thereby form an integral unit. 1n making this double unit, the ave metal 2o l plates are properly fixed within the vulcanizing -mo1d as metri inserts with the uncured rubbeiblanks located therebetween and thus the entire double unit is simply and economically made in one vulcanizing operation. The inserts I4 are 25 held properly located by the projecting screws I5 while the insert plate I0 and also the two insert plates 20 are held properly located by a mold core pin (not shown) which extends thru the holes.23 in plates 2li and also has a reduced diam- 30 eter extending thru the holes I2 in plate I0. Of course these core plus also mold the recesses 24 in the rubber elements 22. Holes 23 and recesses 24 are provided to permit the heads of screws I3 to pass therethru in order to clamp dl- 35 rectly against plate I0 (see the right side of Fig. 4). This double unit of Figs. l and 2 may be used as such as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, or it may be simply cut in two parts at the center line A and thus provide two single mounting units which may be located at distances farther apart than as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, or used in any other desired positions.

To mount the electric motor I I upon its supporting base IB by means of the resilient units of this invention it is necessary simply to drill and tap threads in the housing II for the attachment screws I3 and thus these resilient mounts may be simply located in any desired position about the periphery of the housing II. When the supporting base I8 is below the motor preferably these mounts are located on each side about 45 degrees from the center line, as clearly shown in Fig. 4.

In oper-ation, the weight or down load is taken 55 by a direct compression of the rubber pads 22 and this down load is transmitted by the metal links 20 across to the rubber pads 2| which are thereby also put under compression (see Fig. 3) but with a slight angular movement of the metal links 2|I due to theoiI-set between pads 22 and pads 2|. The power torque reaction of the motor housing is taken by a twisting shearing distortion in boththe rubber pads 22 and 2| since these are arranged tangentiallyl to the'torque reaction, that is, parallel to the direction of torque movement of the motor housing (see Fig. 4). Under torque reaction it will be noted that each metal link 20 will move angularly substantially within its plane due to the oil-set between the center of pad 22 and the center of pad 2|, and thus each link 20 will function similarly to a shackle link'pivoted at the center of pad 22 at one end and at the center of pad 2| at its other end (see Fig. 3). The resistance of the rubber pads 22 and 2| to such twisting shearing distortion limits the rotational movement of the motor housing under torque reaction. It will now be obvious that this shackle action of the metal links 20 permits a greatly increased rotary deection of the motor housing and with only a slight twisting distortion of the rubber pads 22 and 2|, while at the same time the vertical deflection of the motor housing, due to vertical loads such as weight, is kept relatively small due to such loads being taken by a direct compression of the flat rubber pads 22 and 2| as described above. Preferably, but not necessarily, the metal links 20 each has a slight oi-set 25 between its two ends in order to bring its eective pivot point on Hthe rubber pad 2| more nearly in the same plane with its effective pivot point on rubber pad 22. (See Fig. 3.)

Obviously the above-described single mounting units will function in a used for mounting electric motors or any other mechanical devices where it is desired to permit a considerable degree of deiiection in one direction namely, substantially in the plane of the metal link 20, but only a relatively small degree of deflection in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the metal link 20.

While the embodiment of the present invention as herein disclosed, constitutes a preferred like manner and may be form, it is to be understood that other forms` might be adopted, all coming within the scope of the claims which follow. l

What is claimed is as follows: 1. In an electric motor having a base bracket and a metal housing surrounding the motor shaft,

in combination, resilient rubber. mounts for supporting said housing upon said bracket, said mounts each comprising: a metal plate iixed to said housing, a second metal plate fixed to said bracket, an intermediate oating metal plate, and two resilient rubber layers bonded by vulcanization in situ to opposite sides of said oating plate and to said first and second metal plates respectively, said two rubber layers being disposed substantially perpendicular to a radial line through the axis of the motor shaft whereby the torque reaction on the motor housing is resiliently carried by shear in said rubber layers.

2. In an electric motor having a base bracket and a metal housing surrounding the motor shaft, in combination, resilient rubber Amounts for supporting said housing upon said bracket.' said mounts each comprising: a metal plate iixed to said housing, a second metal plate fixed to said bracket, and offset in an axial direction from said iirst metal plate, an intermediate floating metal plate overlapping and spaced from but adjacent to both of said fixed metal plates and two resilient rubber layers bonded by vulcanization in situ to opposite sides of said iioating plate and to said two fixed metal plates respectively, said rubber layers being arranged to carry the torque reaction by shear therein and the motor weight by compression.

3. A vibration-damping mounting unit for supporting a vibratable device upon its supporting base, comprising: a metal plate having means for rigidly iixing same to the supporting base, a second metal plate located substantially parallel to but offset from said first plate and having means for rigidly fixing same to the vibratable device, athird floating metal plate lying between and overlapping but spaced from both of said oil-set plates, and two resilient rubber blocks surface bonded by vulcanization in situ to opposite sides of said third plate and to the adjacent sides of said two off-set plates respectively.

HARVEY D. GEYER. 

